English
Related papers

Related papers: Curvature Motion in a Minkowski Plane

200 papers

We consider the smooth inverse mean curvature flow of strictly convex hypersurfaces with boundary embedded in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1},$ which are perpendicular to the unit sphere from the inside. We prove that the flow hypersurfaces converge to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Ben Lambert , Julian Scheuer

In this paper, we study the $\sigma_k$ curvature flow of noncompact spacelike hypersurfaces in Minkowski space. We prove that if the initial hypersurface satisfies certain conditions, then the flow exists for all time. Moreover, we show…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Zhizhang Wang , Ling Xiao

In the first part of this paper, we develop the theory of anisotropic curvature measures for convex bodies in the Euclidean space. It is proved that any convex body whose boundary anisotropic curvature measure equals a linear combination of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-05 Ben Andrews , Yitao Lei , Yong Wei , Changwei Xiong

We consider a fourth-order regularization of the curvature flow for an immersed plane curve with fixed boundary, using an elastica-type functional depending on a small positive parameter $\varepsilon$. We show that the approximating flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Giovanni Bellettini , Virginia Lorenzini , Matteo Novaga , Riccardo Scala

The theory of classical types of curves in normed planes is not strongly developed. In particular, the knowledge on existing concepts of curvatures of planar curves is widespread and not systematized in the literature. Giving a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Vitor Balestro , Horst Martini , Emad Shonoda

In this paper we study a contracting flow of closed, convex hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space $\mathbb R^{n+1}$ with speed $f r^{\alpha} K$, where $K$ is the Gauss curvature, $r$ is the distance from the hypersurface to the origin, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-22 Qi-Rui Li , Weimin Sheng , Xu-Jia Wang

The main objective of the present paper is to investigate a sufficient condition for which a rectifying curve on a smooth surface remains invariant under isometry of surfaces, and also it is shown that under such an isometry the component…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2018-08-13 Absos Ali Shaikh , Pinaki Ranjan Ghosh

It has long been conjectured that starting at a generic smooth closed embedded surface in R^3, the mean curvature flow remains smooth until it arrives at a singularity in a neighborhood of which the flow looks like concentric spheres or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-27 Tobias H. Colding , William P. Minicozzi

A nonlocal curvature flow is introduced to evolve locally convex curves in the plane. It is proved that this flow with any initial locally convex curve has a global solution, keeping the local convexity and the elastic energy of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Laiyuan Gao , Horst Martini , Deyan Zhang

We study the motion of sets by anisotropic curvature under a volume constraint in the plane. We establish the exponential convergence of the area-preserving anisotropic flat flow to a disjoint union of Wulff shapes of equal area, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Eric Kim , Dohyun Kwon

I show that every rectifiable simple closed curve in the plane can be continuously deformed into a convex curve in a motion which preserves arc length and does not decrease the Euclidean distance between any pair of points on the curve.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-22 John Pardon

In this paper, we study a new area-preserving curvature flow for closed convex planar curves. This flow will decrease the length of the evolving curve and make the curve more and more circular during the evolution process. And finally, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Zezhen Sun , Yuting Wu

We study the mean curvature flow of complete space-like submanifolds in pseudo-Euclidean space with bounded Gauss image, as well as that of complete submanifolds in Euclidean space with convex Gauss image. By using the confinable property…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Y. L. Xin

In this paper we investigate the convergence for the mean curvature flow of closed submanifolds with arbitrary codimension in space forms. Particularly, we prove that the mean curvature flow deforms a closed submanifold satisfying a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-05-31 Kefeng Liu , Hongwei Xu , Fei Ye , Entao Zhao

We consider the mean curvature flow of compact convex surfaces in Euclidean $3$-space with free boundary lying on an arbitrary convex barrier surface with bounded geometry. When the initial surface is sufficiently convex, depending only on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Sven Hirsch , Martin Li

In this paper we study a normalised anisotropic Gauss curvature flow of strictly convex, closed hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space R^n+1. We prove that the flow exists for all time and converges smoothly to the unique, strictly convex…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Li Chen , Qiang Tu , Di Wu , Ni Xiang

Under mean radius of curvature flow, a closed convex surface in Euclidean space is known to expand exponentially to infinity. In the 3-dimensional case we prove that the oriented normals to the flowing surface converge to the oriented…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Brendan Guilfoyle , Wilhelm Klingenberg

The recent work of Morini-Oronzio-Spadaro and the third author shows that, in three dimensions, a flat-flow solution of the volume-preserving mean curvature flow that converges to a single ball, which is the case for instance when the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Vedansh Arya , Seongmin Jeon , Vesa Julin

This article derives closed-form parametric formulas for the Minkowski sums of convex bodies in d-dimensional Euclidean space with boundaries that are smooth and have all positive sectional curvatures at every point. Under these conditions,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Sipu Ruan , Gregory S. Chirikjian

In this paper we introduce a new geometric flow with rotational invariance and prove that, under this kind of flow, an arbitrary smooth closed contractible hypersurface in the Euclidean space Rn+1 (n, 1) converges to Sn in the C1-topology…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-06 De-Xing Kong , Qiang Ru